# 🔥 BIP-110: Is Bitcoin Under Attack? ⚔️ The Battle for Bitcoin’s Soul ₿

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Podcast: [Blockchain DXB](https://stenobird.com/podcast/blockchain-dxb-905992)
Published: 2026-08-11T04:25:32+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blockchain-dxb/episodes/BIP-110-Is-Bitcoin-Under-Attack---The-Battle-for-Bitcoins-Soul-e3n8d6r
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Who Really Controls Bitcoin? The BIP-110 Battle for Bitcoin’s Future Who actually owns Bitcoin — and who has the power to change its rules? In this AI-generated deep dive, we explore the explosive BIP-110 controversy and the battle over what Bitcoin should ultimately be: decentralized, censorship-resistant money, or a permissionless platform where anyone can compete for block space. BIP-110 emerged in response to the growing use of Bitcoin block space by Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, Runes and other forms of arbitrary data. The proposal attempted to restrict the mechanisms used by these protocols through seven new consensus rules and was designed as a temporary soft fork. But the technical proposal quickly became something much bigger — a philosophical battle over Bitcoin's identity, governance and decentralization. In this episode, we examine: • What BIP-110 actually proposed and why it was created • How SegWit and Taproot helped enable the explosion of on-chain data • Why supporters viewed inscriptions as spam and a threat to Bitcoin's decentralization • Why opponents argued that Bitcoin must remain neutral and permissionless • The debate between sound-money purists and protocol-neutrality advocates • How a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF) could challenge miner influence • Why Bitcoin Core developers and other major figures opposed the activation strategy • The economic risks facing miners if block-space demand changes • What a contentious chain split could mean for exchanges and wallets • Replay risk and the operational nightmare of managing two competing chains • How Bitcoin ETFs, institutional investors and sovereign holders could be affected • The potential regulatory implications of proving that Bitcoin can coordinate transaction filtering • How AI-generated content a…

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